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On holiday, Denmark's queen stocks up on French foods

With a wicker Basketball in hand, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark stepped out on her first full day of her summer vacation to do what most other holidaymaker would do -- go shopping

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Danish teen jailed for beating man to death, filming it: source

A Danish court jailed a teenage boy for four years Friday for beating a complete stranger to death ...

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Danish referendum on EU opt-outs abandoned: PM

Denmark has abandoned plans for an imminent referendum on its four EU opt-outs because of ...

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Carlsberg reaches unexpected heights, posting 40.7-pct profit rise

COPENHAGEN, August 5, 2008 (AFP) - Danish brewer Carlsberg, which together with Heineken acquired rival Scottish and Newcastle (S&N) earlier this year, posted a 40.7-percent leap in second-quarter net profits Tuesday, beating analysts' expectations.

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German man drowns trying to rescue children in Denmark: police

COPENHAGEN, August 3, 2008 (AFP) - A 47-year-old German drowned off Denmark's western coast Sunday when he and another man tried to save two children who had been swept out to sea, Danish police said.

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Furnished Nazi bunkers surface in Denmark, 60 years on

HOUVIG, August 3, 2008 (AFP) - With a tight grip on his flashlight, Tommy Cassoe looks like a Danish Indiana Jones as he crawls out of a bunker buried under the sand, one of 7,000 the Nazis built along Denmark's western shores to fend off an allied invasion.

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EU approves Danish bailout of troubled bank

BRUSSELS, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - The European Commission gave the greenlight on Thursday to Denmark's bailout of Roskilde Bank, judging the rescue of the country's eighth biggest bank did not break EU state aid rules.

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Danish official unemployment rate falls to record low of 1.6 percent

COPENHAGEN, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - The Danish unemployment rate continued to disintegrate in June, tumbling to a record low of 1.6 percent, official figures showed on Thursday.

While the jobless rate fell just 0.1 points from May, it has plunged from 3.5 percent in June 2007, and from 6.2 percent in December 2003, according to seasonally adjusted figures from Statistics Denmark.

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Muslims to take Prophet cartoon protest to top Danish Court

COPENHAGEN, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - Seven Muslim organisations will file suit in Denmark's highest court against newspaper editors who in 2005 first published controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, one of the groups said Thursday.

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Tunisians held over cartoon 'plot' in new Danish supreme court appeal

COPENHAGEN, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - Two Tunisians suspected of plotting to kill a Danish cartoonist who satirised the Prophet Mohammed will appeal their near six-month detention without trial at Denmark's Supreme Court, their lawyers said Tuesday.

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